We question ourselves. What have we done to so affront nature?We interrogate and worry God.Are you there? Are you there, really?Does the covenant you made with us still hold?
Into this climate of fear and apprehension,Christmas...
Willa Cather once said "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."
I've started a series of short fiction based on this concept. ...
I didn’t know much about Elizabeth Edwards, probably what most of us knew, the main events of her life since her husband came to national attention in 2003. But I can’t think of a person in my lifetime who handled adversity...
A fellow writer and blogger, Suzy Turner, sent me a lovely note the other day, bestowing on me the honor of The Versatile Blogger award! Suzy's blog can be found at http://suzyturner.blogspot.com/. It features...
Is anyone as excited as I am about the upcoming movie version of The Great Gatsby? Recently, it was announced that Carey Mulligan was cast as Daisy Buchanan, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby and Tobey Maguire...
Most writers were influenced by certain books, books that either changed the way they looked at writing or the world in general or if you were lucky enough, books that changed everything. For me, one book stands above...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
